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Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This overhyped Zone 2 must not be discrete

Heart rates must be Lognormal in distribution. Simply, it is not possible to have a negative heart rate and at low variance (and a mean > 6 standard deviations away from 0), the lognormal behaves like a normal.

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Natural distribution of heart rates vs that from modern life.

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Author Nassim Nicholas TalebPosted on October 16, 2022October 18, 2022Categories Lognormal, Medicine, Probability

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